Xu Zhu while not intimidating was a tank and would just eat damage. Not so much in the later games but the older ones always took a while to wear him down.
I don’t remember Xu Zhu being tankie in DW3 and DW4, but was a nightmare to fight because his C4 turns him into Barry Bonds, and he’d straight up launch you across the stage with his club lol
Gan Ning in my opinion is a very op character especially in Dynasty Warriors 3 with his most dangerous musou attack he has and you never know when he will use it and how he will use it automatically means you are dead if you play Very Hard and his 4th weapon with musou charge is a fight to the death
I remember back in the day i'm playing DW 4 with my sister, we're playing battle at hu lao gate, when Lu Bu appears he challenge me to a duel and i think to myself "what's worse that could happened? " He literally doing his stab grab and kill me as soon as the duel begin, it happened so fast that for a moment my sister and i just stared at the screen in shock and not saying anything for like a minute xD
IDK why but In DW3, whenever I'd do the Nanman Campaign, Meng Huo and Zhurong and those guys were nothing, but Dong Tu Ne? King Wutugu? King Mulu? those fuckers completely used to melt my health and idk if it was AI on them, but they were on some magic jungle steroids or something
Fighting Gan Ning in Dynasty Warriors 3 and 4 was TORTURE! Definitely the hardest to fight normally, but if you play DW3 XL on hard or very hard difficulty, then any character with the death element on their fourth weapon is a different kind of frustrating. . .
I've always found Zhao Yun in the older games, he does a TON of damage with his first charge attack which also covers a lot of range so even if you try to run he can still spear you continuously from the back. Was a pretty tough time if you mess up somewhere during the fight haha. Gan Ning with the running around musou also was very unpredictable and as you said can take away half your health in a single hit LOL. Definitely agree with the list man! Also love the intros with the multiple quotes for each character in each entry here. 🔥🔥
Ayeee appreciate the kind words about the intro! Took me hours to figure out what I wanted to do with the intros so I appreciate it and for sure Zhao Yun & Gan Ning are two tough cookies
Going on Pang De, i remember in Tong Gate he was so annoying to fight as well. Especially in DW5. Dw3 Tong Gate was this random difficulty spike and he could solo the entire god damn army and come out on top. Dynasty Warriors 4 Lu Bu still gives me nightmares nearly 20 years on. It is a shame in the recent games he doesn't really fight back. In DW8 he just stands there and takes it. Really a shame.
For Xiahou Dun, there's one big time where he is really difficult and that's in DW4 Wu Zhang Plains. If you killed Xiahou Shang in the prisoner exchange, Xiahou Dun will show up as reinforcements in that fight and says he is here to avenge Xiahou Shang, which I thought was a great detail. He will be incredibly powerful. He will want to initiate a duel as well.
I remember killing diao chan before Lu Bu and it was the worst mistake I ever made. DW2 I always use all the savepoints at Hu Lao Gate 😅. Love your content keep it up
He gets crazy sometimes, but honestly, all you need to do is set his A. I to go for you specifically and that's all you need Also, you think that's bad? I'm the one who walked up with a level 8 character thinking, why the heck is everyone freaking out about Lu Bu of all people. I mean look at his name and I found out the arena type fight you get for main officers can't be ran from with this guy readying his pole weapon for a one shot
1-Lu Bu: Obvious champion, in every game he is most overpowered character. 2-Sun Jian (DW 4): The final mission of fall of Wu in DW4 is nigtmare if you choose Wu as the last. The clone Sun Jians are annoying as hell. 3-Gan Ning (DW 5): Gan Ning was really tough in previous games and annoying but he is especially tough and more annying in DW5 because of DW 5's Musou Rage. He spams freaking thing infinitely. 4-Sun Quan (DW 3): God, he is immortal in Chi Bi. I basically killed all Wu and Shu officers but he refuse to die. Countless times he killed me as last person on the map. 5-Meng Huo (DW 4): You have to defeat him seven times. That's so annying. 6-Zhang Jiao (DW 3): As an early encounter he is really deadly in DW 3. His Musou is one of the deadliest for base character. 7-Zhao Yun (DW 6): To be honest he never gave me trouble in another games but he is problematic in this game's Chang Bang stage because of horrible Renbu system. 8-Zhang Fei & Guan Yu (DW 4): Neither him nor Guan Yu gave me trouble but because of lore they always attack together. Actaually Shu characters generally attack together. 9-Zhang Liao (DW 5 & 7): He is kinda trouble in Xia Pi stage. 10-Pang Da (DW 5) : He is busted in Fan Castle.
This list is so nostalgic to me and tbh one of my favorites! Lu Xun, Gan Ning, and Lu Meng were NIGHTMARISH in DW3. Especially Yi Ling! I remember getting 4th weapons that needed to be at that stage on hard and those 3 were awful to go up against. I lost to them consistently. And that’s why to me DW3 is arguably the greatest one. The challenge of it and the fun of that game is too notch. While the newer games have better cutscenes the challenge and difficulty made it awesome. It wasn’t just Lu Bu. And this list brings back so many memories of fighting all of these guys and it being so difficult.
Love the character intro dialogue! Also you have a bit of "Zhang He" content at the beginning of the Ma Chao section! And you are right...adding the rulers (Liu Bei - Cao Cao - Sun Quan ect) to the list doesn't make much sense since are they only powered up because they are the final "boss". Same goes for Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang specially in the older games!
Lu Bu in DW5 was beast. In DW9 I came up to this massive gate, that cool armour and design... And I hit him a lot, nothing happened then a button prompt defeated him....
If anyone was going to have the ability to counter or negate your 'counter attacks' in that games combat system, it should have been Lu Bu. This could have been the one fight where you have to wait for an opening, get in a string and then go defensive. Would have been fitting to Lu Bu and the situation.
DW5 displays their characters so well man: ⭐️ Lu Bu (Hu Lao Gate): infinite power-ups and musuo rages 🔥 ⭐️ Zhang Fei (Chang Ban): he goes super saiyan right from the cutscene 😂 ⭐️ Ma Chao (Tong Gate & Bai Di Castle): the man shouting about JUSTICE, brave enough to face him or your commander is gonna die soon 🥴 ⭐️ Guan Yu (Fan Castle): God Of War's one last dance, so there you go 🔥 ⭐️ Gan Ning (Xia Kou & He Fei): he is a demon in those, with musuo rage and speed ×2 on normal basis ⚡️ ⭐️ Zhang Liao (He Fei): Zhang Liao doesn't have musuo rage like others, but he's in Hyper Mode with attack boost and come back 3 more times 😂 ⭐️ Zhao Yun (Chang Ban): he isn't strong due to his Hyper Mode, but because his moveset is just way too good that you're afraid to approach him 👍 ⭐️ Pang De (Tong Gate, Yang Ping Gate, Fan Castle): it's simple, defeat him or you're never gonna pass 🤷♂️ ✅️ Honorable Mentions: Ling Tong & Gan Ning (Yi Ling), Xu Chu (Tong Gate), Xiahou Dun (Guan Yu's Escape), Taishi Ci (Wu Unification), Huang Zhong & Xiahou Yuan (Mt. Ding Jun) are strong but both Zhong & Yuan aren't fast so you can easily run away when needed
I remember playing DW5 as a child and not understanding that you had to go around Lu Bu, it took me quite a lot of attempt to actually notice it. But eventually, after playing the game a LOT, i went back and beat his ass using my best character : Dian Wei
You're remembering Xiahou Dun on DW4 when he gets hit with the arrow lubu vs cao cao at xiapi. I think another time in the first yellow turban province but lubu vs cao cao again.
watched ur top 10 main game now this episode, o boy, bring back so much good old hardcore memories! 100% agree with u, if they could do a remaster of the older dynasty warriors series, o man! Thanks for the great videos!!
It's fun hearing people talk about the older games and the characters they had hard times fighting. Now, what makes this ironic is that I was always good at fighting. Every other character puts me against any person. And i'm good at the end except for 2 people, Lu Bu cause yes and Zhang Fei because I could never kill him before I get beaten like an 8 year old child who just met a real fight for once
I was late to the Dynasty Warriors party; I started at 6 for the PS2 and went on from there. So I can only speak from experience there. But definitely Lu Bu being number 1 makes perfect sense. After all, there's the phrase "Do not pursue Lu Bu" that has existed for who knows how long. I think I was able to fight him during Dong Zhuo's rebellion in 8 when I wasn't really supposed to, and he was tough. But if beaten, I think he drops a lot of experience and his halberd. And I think for one hypothetical star, you HAD to beat him in the first Wei level, where he could kill you with his musou attack.
Ma Chao sure is strong, but I wouldn't put him as more difficult and scary than Zhang Liao and Guan Yu. And Lu Xun surprised me greatly, although I understood. Except that, I agree mostly with your list. I only felt missing Xu Zhu or Dian Wei, but it's hard to pick only ten without leaving someone out
I remember as a kid back then when taishi ci first appeared and said LOL dual sticks. Until he smacked the sht out of you and you saw chunks of your hp depleting lmao. Those twin rods hit like a truck
Funny coincidence since my latest DW8 Empires experience involved a lot of tanky Wu enemies because i brought a crappy 1-2 Star Weapons, and the enemy's healthbar are massive :/ That could be an interesting Challenge Run however "Can you beat a DW8 Story on Chaos, with only a 1 Star Weapon"?
I never play pre dw5 games so idk how hard they were back then.. But the characters i hate to fight against are the obvious one, Lu Bu (every installment except dw7 & 9), Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei (DW6)..
Lu Bu and Zhao Yun in DW5 have Invincibility in their C0 (Lu Bu's first 2 slashes which has fire and light embedded, and of course Zhao Yun's Dash pierce until he lifts his spear) which was so annoying to get through because the Chaos Mode AI sure knew how to wait for your attack and just spam their C0😂 And i believe the 2nd phase of Lu Bu's Jump charge also has Invincibility too.
Imma give little love to possibly the First Lady of hard characters to fight in Dynasty Warriors. Xing Cai-Dynasty Warriors 5- Bai Di Castle.”This road is for dead men only and none alive shall pass.”
So pretty much every single enemy commander in DW3-6? Lol Gotta say, Lu Bu at Hu Lao Gate on DW4 is the epitome of Dynasty Warriors difficulty. Even with your character maxed out with a fourth weapon he still put up a decent challenge. Honorable mention to Wei Yan at Wu Zhang Plains for me in 3 through 5.
Surprised Zuo Ci isn't mentioned in this video, he was about as strong as Lu Bu when I fought him as Xu Zhu in DW5. In DW8 fighting him and a bunch of his clones is also a pain, and his range is pretty gross throughout.
Lu Bu is a no brainer since he brings every player PTSD in Hulao Gate. If he mosous you in DW7 and 8 you're most likely f-ed, especially his second ground mosou in 8
Once made the mistake of killing Diao Chan on 4 or 5 and Lu Bu came straight at me and wiped me out😂soon as he screamed "Diao Chan" I knew I had made a fatal error
Valid list fr, Lu Bu at #1 is just a given ofc, he’s never been easy to fight in DW😂 not even in other games like Wo Long, bro made me wanna quit the game. Only name I was surprised not to see was Meng Huo, I hated fighting him on Nanzhong, especially in DW3, I hated having to go find and chase him down over and over cause he kept killing everyone😭
@@TheNightowlGaming that’s fair, I think it was mainly just the battle as a whole already being difficult then you got this dude just spawning everywhere😂 also same with Lu Bu in Wo Long, ik it was like at least a week it took me to beat him, maybe more😂
Don't forget that if you hurt/kill Diao Chan at Hu Lao Gate in DW8 Lu Bu will get a HUGE power up and come after you like a heat seeking missile. As if he isn't terrifying enough when you first encounter him the devs decided "let's give him even more power to make players have even MORE trauma". Thanks Koei
Hey quick question I saw you had hex mark in dynasty warriors 6 was that on Xbox if so how did you unlock him and how you unlocked any others like shadower runner (Cao Cao) horse and Red hare (Lu Bu)
Uh I think you have to get lucky and when you use a character that has horse master (Guan Yu, Lu Bu and Ma Chao I believe) you get a horse after every battle. The greater the difficulty the greater chance of getting a good horse to develop, you know you got one of them when the description of the horse reads a certain phrase I forgot what it was, but you can google it as well!
Awww hearing Gan Ning again is so nice. Always my favorite. I love how I know the characters just by their voices even though I haven't played since the 6th game. I recognize every fight here, too. Great video
I really think the two qiaos in dw5 xl should be in this list, they're absolute nightmare to face, two powerups and both of them keeps ganging up on you and your ally is as useless as ever
I have my history There has only always been one character to have beaten me in Dynasty Warriors and it's Lu Bu No other character kills me even if they give me a challenge I beat the crap out of them and then Lu Bu comes right in And while I can beat him he's a pretty decent challange
Here list some characters that are not mentioned in this video but this is just my opinion. Edited: (DW 4 Only) Sun Ce, this guy hits like a truck and attacks quite fast. Tbh, his more annoying than Guan Yu and Zhang Liao Xiao Qiao/Da Qiao, they both attack so fast. It's quite annoying when dealing with both of them at Battle Of Yiling Taishi Ci, man this guy C4 attack that can threw you far away and deal a lot of damage, the C1 the grab attack that hits 7 combo and musou/ult that deal a lot of damage and also can threw you far away. Fighting him duel are absolutely pain when he start activate musou Yue ying, istg I really hated her in DW 4. One of the most annoying female characters to fight especially the juggernaunt health bar is MASSIVE. What's worse is that her element is ice so every time she uses a charge attack, it will have a high chance of freezing me Xiahou Dun, this guy is as annoying as Zhao Yun. He will nonstop combo you and especially his C1 that he nonstop spamming it, but unlike Zhao yun, Xiahou Dun C1 are not invisible Zhang He, just like Xiahou Dun, he is quite annoying to deal with and his musou does a lot of damage. Fighting him in duel at Mount Dingjun are hard but when he start use musou, is game over Xiahou Yuan, man he is quite annoying just like Huang Zhong, but his attack speed are slightly slow than Huang Zhong and he does deal a lot of damage Cao Ren, the best character and this guy has hyper defense so when you attack him, he doesn't flinch. He was hard to deal with especially in the Battle of Fan Castle Wei Yan, this guy.. is scary and his voice give me chills. He has the best weapons. He's like a version of Lu Bu. Both are scary and difficult to deal with
"Dynasty Warriors - Top 10 Toughest Characters To Fight" welcome guys, so number 10 Lu Bu, that is it for now, video is done go home and cry in corner hehehe
@@TheNightowlGaming hehe yeah :) to me when I see other characters I think "gonna kick your ass" but when I see lu bu especial on higher difficulty, I think "run way, RUN AWAY"
The only Lu Bu that sucks, besides DW9 is his appearance in DW7 where he just runs away. Another character that can be quite tricky is Guo Jia, with his orb attacks, that if not careful can take you out rather fast. And when you said about Zhou Tai, I remember when I was playing DW4 for the first time and I was playing Cao Ren first, he looked a beast, he was massive, and Cao Ren being so tiny as well, Zhou Tai was awesome.
Guo Jia is an interesting one, the new games definitely got easier and some of the officers were tough to beat but I feel like it was much easier to beat than the older games
from dw8 some of the scariest are Xiahou Yuan (cos of his long range oneshot musou) and Guan So (he streng self up in midl of the fight and allmost spam very strong musou)
The memory of running from Lubu on red health and spamming arrows will never fade from memory lol
Haha and thats what makes us lifelong fans 😂
They really need to bring back gan Ningwith the saber
They do, been really seeing how underrated that style is lately, so fun
Xu Zhu while not intimidating was a tank and would just eat damage. Not so much in the later games but the older ones always took a while to wear him down.
100% dude was a tank
I don’t remember Xu Zhu being tankie in DW3 and DW4, but was a nightmare to fight because his C4 turns him into Barry Bonds, and he’d straight up launch you across the stage with his club lol
When I think of DW3 New Hefei Castle, I always remember Xu Zhu being incredibly difficult in that stage.
A dw 5 remastered would be so fire🔥
That would be sick!
Gan Ning in my opinion is a very op character especially in Dynasty Warriors 3 with his most dangerous musou attack he has and you never know when he will use it and how he will use it automatically means you are dead if you play Very Hard and his 4th weapon with musou charge is a fight to the death
1000%!! Dude was insane and so unpredictable on the harder levels
I just mentioned this above comment. His special was a instant game over
IMO, Everyone's gangsta until Guo Jia launches his aerial musou😂, (especially in the ultimate difficulty of DW8 XL CE)
I could see that lol
17:12 the grab after breaking your guard was just vile😭😭💀 Lu Bu is really a menace
Lol yeah bruh knew how to put you in your place!
I remember back in the day i'm playing DW 4 with my sister, we're playing battle at hu lao gate, when Lu Bu appears he challenge me to a duel and i think to myself "what's worse that could happened? " He literally doing his stab grab and kill me as soon as the duel begin, it happened so fast that for a moment my sister and i just stared at the screen in shock and not saying anything for like a minute xD
Hahah nice!! Sounds like a good time 😂
IDK why but In DW3, whenever I'd do the Nanman Campaign, Meng Huo and Zhurong and those guys were nothing, but Dong Tu Ne? King Wutugu? King Mulu? those fuckers completely used to melt my health and idk if it was AI on them, but they were on some magic jungle steroids or something
Yeah Nanman stage on DW3 had some nightmarish moments for sure, even the armor troops who were immune to arrows
Fighting Gan Ning in Dynasty Warriors 3 and 4 was TORTURE!
Definitely the hardest to fight normally, but if you play DW3 XL on hard or very hard difficulty, then any character with the death element on their fourth weapon is a different kind of frustrating. . .
100% Gan Ning be wilding
I've always found Zhao Yun in the older games, he does a TON of damage with his first charge attack which also covers a lot of range so even if you try to run he can still spear you continuously from the back. Was a pretty tough time if you mess up somewhere during the fight haha.
Gan Ning with the running around musou also was very unpredictable and as you said can take away half your health in a single hit LOL.
Definitely agree with the list man! Also love the intros with the multiple quotes for each character in each entry here. 🔥🔥
Ayeee appreciate the kind words about the intro! Took me hours to figure out what I wanted to do with the intros so I appreciate it and for sure Zhao Yun & Gan Ning are two tough cookies
Going on Pang De, i remember in Tong Gate he was so annoying to fight as well. Especially in DW5. Dw3 Tong Gate was this random difficulty spike and he could solo the entire god damn army and come out on top.
Dynasty Warriors 4 Lu Bu still gives me nightmares nearly 20 years on. It is a shame in the recent games he doesn't really fight back. In DW8 he just stands there and takes it. Really a shame.
For sure, the newer games dont do these characters justice but the older games they were nightmarish for sure
I remember this too. He just kinda showed up "how about I give you a taste of my Halbert" then proceeded to 4 shot me lol
For Xiahou Dun, there's one big time where he is really difficult and that's in DW4 Wu Zhang Plains. If you killed Xiahou Shang in the prisoner exchange, Xiahou Dun will show up as reinforcements in that fight and says he is here to avenge Xiahou Shang, which I thought was a great detail. He will be incredibly powerful. He will want to initiate a duel as well.
Ahhh nice
Zhou Tai man. Dynasty Warriors 7 Yi Ling caused me two game overs by just the AI hitting that musou
He cray cray
I remember killing diao chan before Lu Bu and it was the worst mistake I ever made. DW2 I always use all the savepoints at Hu Lao Gate 😅. Love your content keep it up
😂 He goes insane in some games when you kill her first
He gets crazy sometimes, but honestly, all you need to do is set his A. I to go for you specifically and that's all you need Also, you think that's bad? I'm the one who walked up with a level 8 character thinking, why the heck is everyone freaking out about Lu Bu of all people. I mean look at his name and I found out the arena type fight you get for main officers can't be ran from with this guy readying his pole weapon for a one shot
1-Lu Bu: Obvious champion, in every game he is most overpowered character.
2-Sun Jian (DW 4): The final mission of fall of Wu in DW4 is nigtmare if you choose Wu as the last. The clone Sun Jians are annoying as hell.
3-Gan Ning (DW 5): Gan Ning was really tough in previous games and annoying but he is especially tough and more annying in DW5 because of DW 5's Musou Rage. He spams freaking thing infinitely.
4-Sun Quan (DW 3): God, he is immortal in Chi Bi. I basically killed all Wu and Shu officers but he refuse to die. Countless times he killed me as last person on the map.
5-Meng Huo (DW 4): You have to defeat him seven times. That's so annying.
6-Zhang Jiao (DW 3): As an early encounter he is really deadly in DW 3. His Musou is one of the deadliest for base character.
7-Zhao Yun (DW 6): To be honest he never gave me trouble in another games but he is problematic in this game's Chang Bang stage because of horrible Renbu system.
8-Zhang Fei & Guan Yu (DW 4): Neither him nor Guan Yu gave me trouble but because of lore they always attack together. Actaually Shu characters generally attack together.
9-Zhang Liao (DW 5 & 7): He is kinda trouble in Xia Pi stage.
10-Pang Da (DW 5) : He is busted in Fan Castle.
Yeah a solid list! Cant complain about it, I didnt include any of the commanders just cause they're always hard by default!
This list is so nostalgic to me and tbh one of my favorites! Lu Xun, Gan Ning, and Lu Meng were NIGHTMARISH in DW3. Especially Yi Ling! I remember getting 4th weapons that needed to be at that stage on hard and those 3 were awful to go up against. I lost to them consistently. And that’s why to me DW3 is arguably the greatest one. The challenge of it and the fun of that game is too notch. While the newer games have better cutscenes the challenge and difficulty made it awesome. It wasn’t just Lu Bu. And this list brings back so many memories of fighting all of these guys and it being so difficult.
YES!! Exactly, yiling was a nightmare with these 3 monsters, loved the challenge and the feeling of beating them was unmatched
Dude I remember Gan Ning had a one hitter quitter in DW3. I was like 😮 did he just run through me! Duuuh duhduhduh duuuuuh…..
Ma Chao used to be top 3 for me in DW3. He was either the first or second character I fully upgraded. The others were Zhao Yun and Zhu rong.
Ma chao and zhao yun are among my faves
Love the character intro dialogue! Also you have a bit of "Zhang He" content at the beginning of the Ma Chao section!
And you are right...adding the rulers (Liu Bei - Cao Cao - Sun Quan ect) to the list doesn't make much sense since are they only powered up because they are the final "boss". Same goes for Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang specially in the older games!
Yep for sure and actually the first quote is Ma Chao's intro from DW3!
Lu Bu in DW5 was beast. In DW9 I came up to this massive gate, that cool armour and design... And I hit him a lot, nothing happened then a button prompt defeated him....
Yeah... very anti climatic
If anyone was going to have the ability to counter or negate your 'counter attacks' in that games combat system, it should have been Lu Bu. This could have been the one fight where you have to wait for an opening, get in a string and then go defensive. Would have been fitting to Lu Bu and the situation.
DW5 displays their characters so well man:
⭐️ Lu Bu (Hu Lao Gate): infinite power-ups and musuo rages 🔥
⭐️ Zhang Fei (Chang Ban): he goes super saiyan right from the cutscene 😂
⭐️ Ma Chao (Tong Gate & Bai Di Castle): the man shouting about JUSTICE, brave enough to face him or your commander is gonna die soon 🥴
⭐️ Guan Yu (Fan Castle): God Of War's one last dance, so there you go 🔥
⭐️ Gan Ning (Xia Kou & He Fei): he is a demon in those, with musuo rage and speed ×2 on normal basis ⚡️
⭐️ Zhang Liao (He Fei): Zhang Liao doesn't have musuo rage like others, but he's in Hyper Mode with attack boost and come back 3 more times 😂
⭐️ Zhao Yun (Chang Ban): he isn't strong due to his Hyper Mode, but because his moveset is just way too good that you're afraid to approach him 👍
⭐️ Pang De (Tong Gate, Yang Ping Gate, Fan Castle): it's simple, defeat him or you're never gonna pass 🤷♂️
✅️ Honorable Mentions: Ling Tong & Gan Ning (Yi Ling), Xu Chu (Tong Gate), Xiahou Dun (Guan Yu's Escape), Taishi Ci (Wu Unification), Huang Zhong & Xiahou Yuan (Mt. Ding Jun) are strong but both Zhong & Yuan aren't fast so you can easily run away when needed
LOL yeah they are some tough cookies!
I definitely remember how scary Gan Ning was in the older games.
A monster
I remember playing DW5 as a child and not understanding that you had to go around Lu Bu, it took me quite a lot of attempt to actually notice it. But eventually, after playing the game a LOT, i went back and beat his ass using my best character : Dian Wei
Niceee
3 of my “aw man, not this guy…” characters are Cao Pi, Taishi Ci, and Dian Wei!
Those are some good ones for sure, I couldnt think of any battles where I fought against Dian Wei that much but I did think of them
I think this is one of my favorite lists you've done. Also, hope you hit that 21k soon. You got 20.9k recently and you honestly deserve much more.
I appreciate the kind words very much! My only goal is to become the number 1 DW content creator and maybe even SW if I really get into it 😁🔥
Another idea I have dunno if you’ve done it already but maybe top 10 costumes? One for the girls and one for the guys?
I am doing a top 10 looks for each game! Maybe I'll do an overall one for the women since there isnt 10 female characters in each game
You're remembering Xiahou Dun on DW4 when he gets hit with the arrow lubu vs cao cao at xiapi. I think another time in the first yellow turban province but lubu vs cao cao again.
Yep!
watched ur top 10 main game now this episode, o boy, bring back so much good old hardcore memories! 100% agree with u, if they could do a remaster of the older dynasty warriors series, o man! Thanks for the great videos!!
Appreciate the kind words!! And yeah if they remaster the old games I would be emptying my wallet so fast !
It's fun hearing people talk about the older games and the characters they had hard times fighting. Now, what makes this ironic is that I was always good at fighting. Every other character puts me against any person. And i'm good at the end except for 2 people, Lu Bu cause yes and Zhang Fei because I could never kill him before I get beaten like an 8 year old child who just met a real fight for once
Lol nice!
I was late to the Dynasty Warriors party; I started at 6 for the PS2 and went on from there. So I can only speak from experience there. But definitely Lu Bu being number 1 makes perfect sense. After all, there's the phrase "Do not pursue Lu Bu" that has existed for who knows how long. I think I was able to fight him during Dong Zhuo's rebellion in 8 when I wasn't really supposed to, and he was tough. But if beaten, I think he drops a lot of experience and his halberd. And I think for one hypothetical star, you HAD to beat him in the first Wei level, where he could kill you with his musou attack.
haha yep lu bu aint no joke!
Ma Chao sure is strong, but I wouldn't put him as more difficult and scary than Zhang Liao and Guan Yu. And Lu Xun surprised me greatly, although I understood. Except that, I agree mostly with your list. I only felt missing Xu Zhu or Dian Wei, but it's hard to pick only ten without leaving someone out
always tough choices haha
Nice content brother
Appreciate it! 🙏
I remember as a kid back then when taishi ci first appeared and said LOL dual sticks. Until he smacked the sht out of you and you saw chunks of your hp depleting lmao. Those twin rods hit like a truck
Haha for sure
Funny coincidence since my latest DW8 Empires experience involved a lot of tanky Wu enemies because i brought a crappy 1-2 Star Weapons, and the enemy's healthbar are massive :/
That could be an interesting Challenge Run however
"Can you beat a DW8 Story on Chaos, with only a 1 Star Weapon"?
Hmm that is interesting, Ill write it down
@@TheNightowlGaming good luck with the challenge man...
I never play pre dw5 games so idk how hard they were back then..
But the characters i hate to fight against are the obvious one, Lu Bu (every installment except dw7 & 9), Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei (DW6)..
Yeah they were some tough people, even tougher in the older games
Lu Bu and Zhao Yun in DW5 have Invincibility in their C0 (Lu Bu's first 2 slashes which has fire and light embedded, and of course Zhao Yun's Dash pierce until he lifts his spear) which was so annoying to get through because the Chaos Mode AI sure knew how to wait for your attack and just spam their C0😂
And i believe the 2nd phase of Lu Bu's Jump charge also has Invincibility too.
definitely tough to fight!
A few notable mentions for me would be Pang De, Xu Huang, Zhou Yu, Pang Tong, Wei Yan Sima Ya or Meng Hou!!.
Definitely tough to do !
Imma give little love to possibly the First Lady of hard characters to fight in Dynasty Warriors. Xing Cai-Dynasty Warriors 5- Bai Di Castle.”This road is for dead men only and none alive shall pass.”
Baidi as a stage was just tough in general!
You know by now im a Gan Ning fan boy. Fighting against Xu Zhu at Hefei Castle on that bridge was so annoying with Ning's musou atk
And yes, I went for Ning first whenever he was an opponent just to get him out of the way 😂
Gan ning a beast!
So pretty much every single enemy commander in DW3-6? Lol Gotta say, Lu Bu at Hu Lao Gate on DW4 is the epitome of Dynasty Warriors difficulty. Even with your character maxed out with a fourth weapon he still put up a decent challenge.
Honorable mention to Wei Yan at Wu Zhang Plains for me in 3 through 5.
Lu Bu was always a menace, Wei Yan is a solid honorable mention
Surprised Zuo Ci isn't mentioned in this video, he was about as strong as Lu Bu when I fought him as Xu Zhu in DW5. In DW8 fighting him and a bunch of his clones is also a pain, and his range is pretty gross throughout.
yeah i could imagine with xu zhu it would be tough, but i didnt have any memorable fights w him
Cao Ren is missing i feel, always blocking a lot and takes up more time than most plus powerful mosou
Facts, he can be a tough opponent
Lu Bu is a no brainer since he brings every player PTSD in Hulao Gate. If he mosous you in DW7 and 8 you're most likely f-ed, especially his second ground mosou in 8
im trying a challenge in dw3xl, he one hit KOs me rn
Once made the mistake of killing Diao Chan on 4 or 5 and Lu Bu came straight at me and wiped me out😂soon as he screamed "Diao Chan" I knew I had made a fatal error
LOL good times
Valid list fr, Lu Bu at #1 is just a given ofc, he’s never been easy to fight in DW😂 not even in other games like Wo Long, bro made me wanna quit the game. Only name I was surprised not to see was Meng Huo, I hated fighting him on Nanzhong, especially in DW3, I hated having to go find and chase him down over and over cause he kept killing everyone😭
definitely a nuisance but Meng man wasnt too hard to fight, fighting Lu Bu in Wo Long took me 40 tries lol
@@TheNightowlGaming that’s fair, I think it was mainly just the battle as a whole already being difficult then you got this dude just spawning everywhere😂 also same with Lu Bu in Wo Long, ik it was like at least a week it took me to beat him, maybe more😂
This content is tough 🔥😎
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Don't forget that if you hurt/kill Diao Chan at Hu Lao Gate in DW8 Lu Bu will get a HUGE power up and come after you like a heat seeking missile. As if he isn't terrifying enough when you first encounter him the devs decided "let's give him even more power to make players have even MORE trauma". Thanks Koei
good times lol
@@TheNightowlGaming It also happens in the battle where Shu and Wei team up against him
Hey quick question I saw you had hex mark in dynasty warriors 6 was that on Xbox if so how did you unlock him and how you unlocked any others like shadower runner (Cao Cao) horse and Red hare (Lu Bu)
Uh I think you have to get lucky and when you use a character that has horse master (Guan Yu, Lu Bu and Ma Chao I believe) you get a horse after every battle. The greater the difficulty the greater chance of getting a good horse to develop, you know you got one of them when the description of the horse reads a certain phrase I forgot what it was, but you can google it as well!
Awww hearing Gan Ning again is so nice. Always my favorite.
I love how I know the characters just by their voices even though I haven't played since the 6th game.
I recognize every fight here, too. Great video
Haha glad you enjoying the vids! 😁
In dw3 i got one tapped when i first met lu bu😭
haha nice
I really think the two qiaos in dw5 xl should be in this list, they're absolute nightmare to face, two powerups and both of them keeps ganging up on you and your ally is as useless as ever
I havent played against in 5xl yet, will have to visit that
@@TheNightowlGaming oh you definitely should! They really didn't let you breath especially on harder difficulty
I have my history
There has only always been one character to have beaten me in Dynasty Warriors and it's Lu Bu
No other character kills me even if they give me a challenge I beat the crap out of them and then Lu Bu comes right in
And while I can beat him he's a pretty decent challange
Try on the harder levels im sure some characters will rip thru lol
Zhou Tai is p cool🤓
He is a beast
lu bu is easily the toughest characters to fight him kick my butt in every dynasty warriors games lol
100%
Wish they could remaster the old games
same!
Here list some characters that are not mentioned in this video but this is just my opinion. Edited: (DW 4 Only)
Sun Ce, this guy hits like a truck and attacks quite fast. Tbh, his more annoying than Guan Yu and Zhang Liao
Xiao Qiao/Da Qiao, they both attack so fast. It's quite annoying when dealing with both of them at Battle Of Yiling
Taishi Ci, man this guy C4 attack that can threw you far away and deal a lot of damage, the C1 the grab attack that hits 7 combo and musou/ult that deal a lot of damage and also can threw you far away. Fighting him duel are absolutely pain when he start activate musou
Yue ying, istg I really hated her in DW 4. One of the most annoying female characters to fight especially the juggernaunt health bar is MASSIVE. What's worse is that her element is ice so every time she uses a charge attack, it will have a high chance of freezing me
Xiahou Dun, this guy is as annoying as Zhao Yun. He will nonstop combo you and especially his C1 that he nonstop spamming it, but unlike Zhao yun, Xiahou Dun C1 are not invisible
Zhang He, just like Xiahou Dun, he is quite annoying to deal with and his musou does a lot of damage. Fighting him in duel at Mount Dingjun are hard but when he start use musou, is game over
Xiahou Yuan, man he is quite annoying just like Huang Zhong, but his attack speed are slightly slow than Huang Zhong and he does deal a lot of damage
Cao Ren, the best character and this guy has hyper defense so when you attack him, he doesn't flinch. He was hard to deal with especially in the Battle of Fan Castle
Wei Yan, this guy.. is scary and his voice give me chills. He has the best weapons. He's like a version of Lu Bu. Both are scary and difficult to deal with
Yeah I can 100% agree and some of them in DW4 were suped up which was even worse
I am not sure about Zhang Liao and Guan Yu. They are not good strategists like Lu Xun, nor walls like Zhang Fei or Xing Cai.
I could see dat
Lu Bu in 3 4 5 is scary
Indeed 👀
What is the OST you used in the background at the opening?
its a lu bu theme i forget which one
@@TheNightowlGaming fair enough haha. Keep up the good work! Replaying DW8 now
@@kelvinferdinanto1089 🙏🙏
Seems like i'm the only one who struggle against xiao Qiao 🗿
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"Dynasty Warriors - Top 10 Toughest Characters To Fight" welcome guys, so number 10 Lu Bu, that is it for now, video is done go home and cry in corner hehehe
Lol all 10 is just Lu Bu 😂
@@TheNightowlGaming hehe yeah :) to me when I see other characters I think "gonna kick your ass" but when I see lu bu especial on higher difficulty, I think "run way, RUN AWAY"
Bro jia xu please
As in one of the toughest to fight? I dont think he is 🫤
This guy is amazing at reading people mind
I want to know he's story
@@kuwaitzain9411 Here's my analysis of Jia Xu if you wanna know more about him
ua-cam.com/video/FqLIrzl-YQM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TheNightowl
The only Lu Bu that sucks, besides DW9 is his appearance in DW7 where he just runs away. Another character that can be quite tricky is Guo Jia, with his orb attacks, that if not careful can take you out rather fast. And when you said about Zhou Tai, I remember when I was playing DW4 for the first time and I was playing Cao Ren first, he looked a beast, he was massive, and Cao Ren being so tiny as well, Zhou Tai was awesome.
Guo Jia is an interesting one, the new games definitely got easier and some of the officers were tough to beat but I feel like it was much easier to beat than the older games
from dw8 some of the scariest are Xiahou Yuan (cos of his long range oneshot musou) and Guan So (he streng self up in midl of the fight and allmost spam very strong musou)
True true
Before I watch the video Lu bu is 1
Yep!